Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935 Ramon Ortega, oboe Zagreb soloists

Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935 Zagreb soloists Ramon Ortega, oboe I. Andante e spiccato 00:00 II. Adagio 03:37 III. Presto 07:24 The Oboe Concerto in D minor, SD 935, is an early 18thcentury concerto for oboe, strings and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello. The earliest extant manuscript containing Johann Sebastian Bach s solo keyboard arrangement of the concerto, BWV 974, dates from around 1715. As a concerto for oboe, strings and continuo its oldest extant sources date from 1717: that year it was printed in Amsterdam, and a C minor variant of the concerto, SZ 799, was written down. Bach s keyboard version was published as an arrangement of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi in the 19th century. In 1923 the C minor version of the oboe concerto was published as a composition by Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro s brother. In the second half of the 20th century several publications indicated Alessandro again as